Ukrainian Orthodox Church

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a branch of Orthodox Christianity which was established on 15 December 2018. It united the Kiev Patriarchate, the Moscow Patriarchate (which was part of the Russian Orthodox Church), and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church under a "Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine", and it was formed as the result of a schism with the Moscow Patriarchate. The schism, mostly political in origin, rejected the Moscow Patriarchate's claim to ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the Metropolis of Kiev, as the Russian Orthodox Church had severed its communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in response to a move to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian Orthodoxy for the first time since 1686.